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GEORGE IV. SIIERER, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOADELBERT F. JUDD, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-LINE JUSTlFlERf SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.555,907, dated March 3, 1896.

Application filed November 30,1895. Serial No. 570,714. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WV. SHERER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Type-Line Justifiers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved font of justifying-spaces for type;and it consists of a series of thin sheet-metal spaces of Va rious sizesbodywise, according to the point system, and of uniform thickness orsize runningwise.

The accompanying drawing shows isometrical representations of series ofdifferent-size line-spaces which constitute a font.

WVith every font of type there are spaces which are of uniform sizebodywise, but vary in size runningwise from the five-em or hair-space tothe three-em quad.

In composing type it frequently happens that the line cannot bejustified by any of the font-spaces or a combination of such spaces, andin such event cardboard is usually resorted to as a justifying medium.This is particularly true of advertising matter and display-lines, as itrarely ever happens that the lines, and particularly display-lines, makean accurate fit in the composing-stick. These cardboard spaces, or ifleads are used, as they sometimes are, must be cut to the proper size bythe type-setter, and their use is objectionable in that it not onlytakes time to make these spaces, but the spaces after being used onceare as a rule thrown aside. Now while the cardboard spaces when properlyshaped temporarily answer the purpose for which they were intended, theyare more or less unreliable, owing to the fact that they are yielding,and hence do not hold the type solidly in place. Again, if the form belaid aside for future use the lye-bath to which the type must besubjected before subsequent use dampens the cardboard spaces, and,causing them to swell, renders them useless and necessitatesrejustifying before the form can be again used.

In the manufacture of type the width or bodywise is made according tothe point system, the body of the type being known as so many points, asfive, ten, twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty-six, forty-eight, andsixty points, as shown in the drawing. 1

My improved spaces, which are made of sheet metal, preferablycopper-plate, are also constructed on the point system bodywise, thespaces runningwise, however, all being of the same thickness. From thisit will be seen when the lines cannot be justified by the ordinaryspaces and leads or combinations of spaces that the filling in can bereadily and quickly accomplished by the thin pliable spaces abovedescribed, Which are as permanent when once in the frame as the typethemselves.

My spaces are in fonts and correspond in size bodywise with theirrespective type. Hence with them it is a simple matter to justify andline without inconvenience or the loss of time.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A font of justifying-spaces, consisting of a series of thin sheet-metalspaces of various sizes, the size of the spaces being the samerunningwise but varying bodywise according to the point system.

GEORGE w. SHERER. Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEHEL.

